Ticket race crowded for Kendrapara Assembly seat in Odisha

KENDRAPARA: An intense tussle has damaged out in all the key political events for securing nominations to contest the upcoming polls from Kendrapara Meeting seat.

The BJD is but to announce its candidate for the SC-reserved seat. Sources mentioned incumbent MLA and senior BJD chief Shashi Bhusan Behera has been adamant in his demand to contest from the seat once more. Nonetheless, he’s dealing with a troublesome problem from 5 different ticket aspirants – former Kendrapara MLAs Sipra Mallick and Kishor Tarei, chairperson of Kendrapara Zilla Parishad Gita Sethi and youth leaders Manas Sethi and Rajesh Das.

Moreover, speculations are rife in regards to the ruling get together fielding senior Congress chief Ganeswar Behera within the seat. Sources within the BJD mentioned there are discussions about the potential for the get together nominating Ganeswar from Kendrapara as its candidate.

Contacted, Ganeswar mentioned, “Many well-wishers and voters of my constituency have been urging me to affix the BJD. Nonetheless, I’m but to take a call on this regard.”

With Ganeswar not making his stance clear, the Kendrapara unit of Congress is in a disarray. Senior Congress chief Dharanidhar Suar mentioned, “We’re fearful as elections are inching nearer and Ganeswar is but to scotch the rumours about his entry in BJD.”

Social gathering sources mentioned Haladhar Sethi is the frontrunner for the Congress ticket in Kendrapara seat. Equally, Kalpana Mallick, Abhimanyu Gochayat and Sunakar Behera are within the race to contest from BJP. Abhimanyu, an area BJP chief, mentioned, “The BJD’s maintain over Kendrapara has slackened primarily as a result of anti-people insurance policies of the federal government. Voters of Kendrapara will elect the BJP candidate within the polls this time.”

President of the district unit of BJD Dhiren Sahoo mentioned the Congress and BJP haven’t any base in Kendrapara. “The state authorities did many improvement works within the space and voters will guarantee BJD’s win once more within the upcoming polls.”